Buffer for railway-vehicles.



Njq. 315,288, A VPATBNTED MAR; 13,' 190,6.

l JA. M. GOODWIN.

BUFFER POR RAILWAY VBE-lows.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1'905 UNiTniii STATES ,PATENT OFFICE .ions iiARs'roNooonwiN, orMfoUN'r NEW YORK.

' BUFFERFOB RAILWAY-VHICLES.

' of a device of economical and rigid'construction for receiving the bufiing shocks and supporting the. vehicle-coupler; and the invention involves several features of novelty and importa-nce, as will 'be' hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out-in the appended claims'.

eferring to the one sheet of drawings forming part of this description, 4Figure l is a view partly in plan and partly. in horizontal section on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a i front elevation 'with one end .broken away, and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on The buffer is designed to be and preferably is made-of a single piece or casting and comprises a body member 1 which is adapted to encounter directly'the impact ofthe couplerhead- 2 and transmit the saine through its 36 rearward flanges to the frame or bodyof the vehicle. The body member is hollow, being formed of front and back walls, (respectively designated 3 and 4,) which are centrally supported by an interior webl or' post 5 and converge from the center toward eac'h end, at which points they are provided with depending portions ('5 and rearward vertical flanges 7 7, adapted to bebolted to the center sills., (Not shown.) The top wall ofthe hollow body extends rearward-y with the flanges, asshown in Fig. 1, so that it also may be secured tothe vehicle, if desired, andv the bottom wall thereof terminates at the lower edge of rear wall 4.

that the above disposition of' the parts of the body l is excellently' adapted 'to transmit the shocks of' collii-ling couplers to the flanges and from thence to the sills. The body has its vertical'dimension less than either hori- 5o zontal dimension, and the rearward flanges 7 depend below the body, being forme( also as a part of the depending portions 6 (5, above referred tor The'latter. are provided with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led June 7, 1905. Serial loE 264,093.

It will be observedv Patented Marot is. 1906.'

between which an intermediate central space is provided for the coupler' or its draw-bar,

and 'they extend inl opposite directions beyond the c'oiivergent`v ends o f the 'walls 3 and 4, as shown, where vthey unite with the eX- tended ends of thefront wall 3, and at this point are provided with bolteholes, as shown in Fig. 2. The said depending portions are also provided with angle-flanges 9 and' bottom flanges 10, by means of' wil'iich a carrierplate 11 may be bolted to the extremities thereof. The coupler is supported by the plate 11 in. the space between the depending.

portions, as shown in Fig. 3, in which position it-wi`ll properly transmit its shocks to `the body member. Having described my invention, what I claim, and' desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

1. A bufler comprising a hollow body'meriiber adapted to yreceive the impact of colliding vehicles, and formed with its front and rear wiills convergent from the center toward the ofa vehicle.y

' 2. A buffer comprising a' hollow body niem- -ber adapted to receive the impact ot collidingvehiclesan'd formed with its front and rear walls convergent frointhe center toward the ends, and with an interior web disposed between said walls in the direction-of the colliding' strains,-and means for securing said hollow member to the frame of a vehicle.

3. A bu ffer comprisingl a body member ,adapted to receive the impact ofcolliding vehicles and formed with its -front and rear opposite interior faces d'6', 'slightly inclined,

walls convergent from the centei` toward the ends, portions depending from said' member forming an ,intermediate coupler-space and flanges projecting rearwardly frointhe ends of said member'and said portions, forming a means of attachment therefor to the frame of a vehicle, in combination with a carrier-plate I secured to the said depending portions and a coupler borne by said plate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the specification in the presen@ of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN ARSTON GOODWIN. V'"itnessesz 

